Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <91A8FD196436D1118EC2006008186C961428B1@server1.axonet.com.au> From: Andrew Dalgleish To: Timothy Reaves , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: RE: Total lack of accurate documentation! Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:41:37 +1100 X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) > -----Original Message----- > From: Timothy Reaves [SMTP:treaves AT y11a165 DOT neo DOT rr DOT com] > Sent: 1999 February 25, Thursday 06:13 > To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > Subject: Total lack of accurate documentation! > > I downloaded this product, and initially said WOW. That changesd > meaning as I began to look around at the documentation. Sad. There > is > much missing and a lot of what is there is outright wrong! > > Does anyone know if this is due to rapid changes in the product, > or > slow documentation people? I have tried to use the search feature to > search the past mails, but their search engine is broke due to a mount > problem it looks like. > > There are two things I'd like to know off the bat: > 1) If I have /tmp mounted on d:\temp, and can do cd /tmp, why does > /tmp not show up when I > do a ls -la / ? > 2) I have the following line in my .bashrc file, copied from > linux. > alias dir = 'ls -la --color=yes' > when I start bash, I get the following errors: > bash: alias: 'dir' not found > bash: alias: '=' not found [Andrew Dalgleish] You have spaces around your equals sign. 378$ alias dir = ls bash.exe: alias: `dir' not found bash.exe: alias: `=' not found alias ls='ls --color=tty -F' 379$ alias dir=ls 380$ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com